From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763618AbXGTQ4K (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jul 2007 12:56:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S941425AbXGTQtX (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jul 2007 12:49:23 -0400 Received: from hp3.statik.tu-cottbus.de ([141.43.120.68]:56416 "EHLO hp3.statik.tu-cottbus.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932539AbXGTQtU (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jul 2007 12:49:20 -0400 Message-ID: <46A0E76B.5050606@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 18:48:43 +0200 From: Stefan Richter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070509 SeaMonkey/1.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Snook CC: Satyam Sharma , "clameter@sgi.com" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [RFC 1/4] CONFIG_STABLE: Define it References: <20070531002047.702473071@sgi.com> <20070531003012.302019683@sgi.com> <46A097FE.3000701@redhat.com> <46A09DB2.5040408@redhat.com> <46A0A186.4030908@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <46A0A186.4030908@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Chris Snook wrote: > There are many different ways you can use it. If I'm writing a configurable > feature, I could make it depend on !CONFIG_STABLE, or I could ifdef my code out > if CONFIG_STABLE is set, unless a more granular option is also set. The > maintainer of the code that uses the config option has a lot of flexibility, In other words, nobody will ever know what this config option really does. > at least until we start enforcing standards. -- Stefan Richter -=====-=-=== -=== =-=-- http://arcgraph.de/sr/